Bøger af Elaine C. Baumbach

Marriage at any age presents challenges, generates disagreements, and requires compromise. Marriage at an advanced age increases these challenges. Sometimes it's easier to keep the peace when the hearing-aid batteries run out, and compromise is often easier to attain with the understanding that, late in life, nothing is long term. Life at Parliament Square continues in the second book of the Parliament Square series, For Better . . . For Worse. The first book, You Can't Get There From Here, introduced Sara Jennings, following her transition from independent living to life in a senior retirement community. In the last chapter of that book, Sara and Joseph became engaged to be married.Now Sara's story continues as she enjoys new experiences while savoring memories of days gone by. She opens a new chapter in her book of life with all the confidence of a four-year-old in a Superman cape. She refuses to allow her chronological age to define her, seizing life with the geriatric version of reckless abandon. Life is once again an adventure instead of a meaningless progression of hours to be endured until tomorrow arrives.The memories of life's moments massage our hearts with gentle fingers of love. Sometimes they remind us of days gone by, days that are missed but will never be forgotten. Our hearts often ache for those times. Memories make us smile. Memories make us cry. Sometimes they make us laugh and cry at the same time. They make us realize life is too precious to waste a single day. Rejoin Sara Jennings and her friends at Parliament Square as they have new adventures and make new memories in For Better . . . For Worse.

Life offers many choices. Decisions made on each personal journey are sometimes questioned and alternative outcomes imagined had a different path been followed. However, it is understood...You Can't Get There From Here.Sara Jennings loved her cherished cottage by the sea, spending the days tending the garden, walking the dunes, and visiting her friends. But times change, and at eighty-plus years old she finds herself beginning a whole new life in the retirement community of Parliament Square where she is supervised, observed, fussed over . . . everything that Sara could live without. Is this the way life ends after so many years of joy and struggle and striving and living?But at Parliament Square, Sara may find more than she expects: new adventures, colorful characters, rekindled friendships, revived passions, and perhaps even love. As she opens her heart and mind to a bold and challenging new chapter, why is she haunted by vivid, mysterious visions of what her life could have been if different choices had been made? As Sara's psyche revisits past life decisions - both real and possible-her mind and body walk the road that leads to tomorrow-and that road takes her directly to Parliament Square. You Can't Get There From Here is the first volume of an exciting new series. Follow the continuing story of Sara Jennings and her extraordinary friends in future Parliament Square books which will be available from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller.